Flight: An absolutely amazing riff by Ken Layne on crows. Go and enjoy.

We read so you don’t have to: Blogs at their best are a tremendous service. Their authors scour the Internet for everything interesting and package it for you. A prime example: I did not have time to read Terry McAuliffe’s important speech setting the agenda for the fight against Bush but Nick Denton read it and found its nut graph, which he quotes here.